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Luis A Avilés

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ID969024
NAMELuis A Avilés
GIVEN NAMESLuis A
FAMILY NAMEAvilés
SIGNATUREAVILÉS L A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX2
  • Unmanageable Care: An Ethnography of Health Care Privatization in Puerto Rico, written by Jessica M. Mulligan

    Open Access•Luis A Avilés•ARTICLE•New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe…•2017

  • Epidemiology as discourse: The politics of development institutions in the Epidemiological Profile of El Salvador

    Luis A Avilés•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2001•Cited by: 6•References: 22

    STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine the ways in which institutions devoted to international development influence epidemiological studies. DESIGN: This article takes a descriptive epidemiological study of El Salvador, Epidemiological Profile, conducted in 1994 by the US Agency for International Development, as a case study. The methods include discourse analysis in order to uncover the ideological basis of the report and its characteristics as a discou…

  • Epidemiología, ideología y el discurso del desarrollo en El Salvador

    Open Access•Luis A Avilés•ARTICLE•ECA Estudios Centroamericanos•2000•References: 1

    Cúal es el lugar que ocupa la política, la ideología y el activismo en la investigación epidemiológica? El objetivo de este artículo es responder a esta pregunta y para ello se muestra que el carácter cuantitativo de la epidemiología y su enérgico énfasis en asuntos metodológicos no hace a esta ciencia inmune a las influencias políticas e ideológicas. Analiza, además, la forma en que las instituciones de desarrollo crean un discurso que influye s…

  • Abortion in Puerto Rico: The limits of colonial legality

    Yamila Azize-Vargas, Luis A Avilés•ARTICLE•Reproductive Health Matters•1997•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    As a colony of the United States, abortion became legal in Puerto Rico, as a consequence of the US Supreme Courtrulingin Roe v. Wade, rather than as a consequence of intemal political developments. In spite of a wide variety of foreign-sponsored population experiments and policies, developed with the active participation of government, opposition to abortion emerged in Puerto Rico and women's right to abortion has not been fully accepted by gover…

  • Epidemiology as discourse: The politics of development institutions in the Epidemiological Profile of El Salvador

    Luis A Avilés•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2001•Cited by: 6•References: 22

    STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine the ways in which institutions devoted to international development influence epidemiological studies. DESIGN: This article takes a descriptive epidemiological study of El Salvador, Epidemiological Profile, conducted in 1994 by the US Agency for International Development, as a case study. The methods include discourse analysis in order to uncover the ideological basis of the report and its characteristics as a discou…

  • Abortion in Puerto Rico: The limits of colonial legality

    Yamila Azize-Vargas, Luis A Avilés•ARTICLE•Reproductive Health Matters•1997•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    As a colony of the United States, abortion became legal in Puerto Rico, as a consequence of the US Supreme Courtrulingin Roe v. Wade, rather than as a consequence of intemal political developments. In spite of a wide variety of foreign-sponsored population experiments and policies, developed with the active participation of government, opposition to abortion emerged in Puerto Rico and women's right to abortion has not been fully accepted by gover…

  • Abortion in Puerto Rico: The limits of colonial legality

    Yamila Azize-Vargas, Luis A Avilés•ARTICLE•Reproductive Health Matters•1997•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    As a colony of the United States, abortion became legal in Puerto Rico, as a consequence of the US Supreme Courtrulingin Roe v. Wade, rather than as a consequence of intemal political developments. In spite of a wide variety of foreign-sponsored population experiments and policies, developed with the active participation of government, opposition to abortion emerged in Puerto Rico and women's right to abortion has not been fully accepted by gover…

  • Epidemiología, ideología y el discurso del desarrollo en El Salvador

    Open Access•Luis A Avilés•ARTICLE•ECA Estudios Centroamericanos•2000•References: 1

    Cúal es el lugar que ocupa la política, la ideología y el activismo en la investigación epidemiológica? El objetivo de este artículo es responder a esta pregunta y para ello se muestra que el carácter cuantitativo de la epidemiología y su enérgico énfasis en asuntos metodológicos no hace a esta ciencia inmune a las influencias políticas e ideológicas. Analiza, además, la forma en que las instituciones de desarrollo crean un discurso que influye s…

  • Epidemiology as discourse: The politics of development institutions in the Epidemiological Profile of El Salvador

    Luis A Avilés•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2001•Cited by: 6•References: 22

    STUDY OBJECTIVE: To determine the ways in which institutions devoted to international development influence epidemiological studies. DESIGN: This article takes a descriptive epidemiological study of El Salvador, Epidemiological Profile, conducted in 1994 by the US Agency for International Development, as a case study. The methods include discourse analysis in order to uncover the ideological basis of the report and its characteristics as a discou…

  • Unmanageable Care: An Ethnography of Health Care Privatization in Puerto Rico, written by Jessica M. Mulligan

    Open Access•Luis A Avilés•ARTICLE•New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe…•2017

Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Public Health and Social Inequalities (2 works) · Abortion (1 works) · Abortion law (1 works) · Agency (philosophy) (1 works)

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